Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 22 March 1889 — Page 2

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THE REPUBLICAN. Pnblislied by W. S. MONTGOMERY. GREENFIELD. INDIANA

It has long been recognized by scientists that the one great discovery wanting was some method of utilizing solar heat—that is, to prevent the waste of the power that is all about us. Ericsson and others have worked at the problem and have succeeded in constructing machines on roofs for concentrating rays and drivine engines. Prof. Morse, well known for his researches in archeology paleontology in the West, has at last devised a simple stove for warming rooms by solar heat. The device is, of course, good only on sunny days. The invention is, however, along a line on which we may expect great progress.

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW says the new Secretary of the Navy is addicted to getting seasick. Why didn't he tell President Harrison of this before the appointment was made? How can we ever survive the disgraceful spectacle of our highest naval official hanging over the vessel's side in earnest communion with the spirits of the deep? And when he turns for a moment, with blanched face, to order his men to reef the capstan and luff the hatches, will not the after guard and the for'ard mess and the labbard and stabbard watches give him the razzle dazzle? It will not do at all. We must have a new naval commander, and he must be the saltiest sea dog afloat.

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THE case of dynamite bombs exploded at one of the Eastern colleges by some of the students in a row, or frolic, surpasses all instances of college misdeeds on record. It seems that one of the boys persuaded his father to send them the

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not known The boys used them to blow up and injure college buildings. One bomb exploded in a student's hands, and the chap is now in a hospital, with slight chances for life. A few years ago a cannon was exploded in a college building, but even that did not parallel this bomb-throwing. If law is of any value anywhere it is in punishing all parties engaged in this infernal businesss [business].

THE effects of raising the Commissioner of Agriculture to the position of a Cabinet officer will be inevitably to remove him further from the farmers and

he is intended mainly to repre-

sent. No one supposes that hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture will, as a rule be chosen from practical agriculturists, but from politicians for political purposes. That does not make it at all certain that is some cases the change may not be [illegible] the better. for there have

p [illegible] ability and fitness. But the intention of the office primarily was to have a practical and educated agriculturist at Washington to supervise the farming interests of the country. Precisely why any one thought it would benefit agriculture to make the change in question is hard to understand.

ONE of the newest military explosives has just been experimented with in England on an elaborate scale and with surprising results. It possesses under ordinary circumstances a striking disinclination to explode. Hammer it, it is harmless as clay. Put it in the fire, it smoulders dully. Apply friction, it is unresponsive. Shock it with an electric spark, or even a lightning bolt, it is harmless as a brickbat. Put a mass of it on a pile of gunpowder and ignite the latter, it is hurled to one side, unexploded. In brief, it may be handled and transported as freely as so much sand. But apply a detonating cap properly, and it explodes with terrific force, far greater and more destructive than that of dynamite; giving off no smoke, no flame, and no noxious fumes. Its peculiar qualities of action, as well as the safety of its use, indicate that it will prove valuable in mining and other peaceful arts.

A Pleasant Evening.

The Epoch. Young Mr. Waldo, of Boston, was about taking his departure after a social evening with the Wabashes, of Chicago. "I have spent a most agreeable and delightful evening, Miss Wabash," he said, struggling with his overcoat "one to be long treasured and remembered." "Oh, thanks, awfully," replied the young lady, genteely. "I can fancy that when one is traveling about on business and forced to spend much of his time at the hotels, that an occasional evening among the refining influences of the social circle must be a blessing, if not a boon. Papah, can't you help Mr. Waldo with his hand-me down?"

A gang of tramps have been infesting the vicinity of the Midland Depot at Anderson for several days. Sunday night they forced the door leading into the depot and took possession. Word was sent to the marshal, and, accompanied by several officers and citizens, each armed with a barrel stave, the the building was surrounded and the vagrants were hustled out, sans ceremony. As each made his appearance he was most severely and roundly "paddled," the chase being continued for some distance, and until every one had been driven beyond the city limits.

C. C. White, of Charlestown, has in his possession a powder-horn made by his father, John White, in 1808, which is handsomely carved and shows but little wear. Captain Charles Mathes carried it through the Tippecanoe campaign and used it in the battle of Tippe--canoe in 1811. The horn will be deposited with the curios in the State Library.

THE INSANE ASYLUM.

FULL REPORT OF THE LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.

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stituted against him by the proper officer to recover said funds, and that the prosecuting attorney of Marion county cause such criminal proceedings against him as his offense justifies.

The Management Strongt Condemned — Corruption and Extravagance Boldly Charged — Arrest of Trustee Gapen for Embezzlement.

On the last day of the recent Indiana Legislature the joint committee appointed to investigate the Insane Asylum management, submitted their report. It was signed by five Democrats and four Republicans. The report appended:

After reciting the proceedings necessary for organisation, the report details in brief the salient points of the evidence as heretofore published. It then stated that the findings of the committee were based upon the evidence of the three trustees of the institution, the superintendent, the assistant superintendent, the assistant lady physician, the steward and book-keeper, Dr. Fletcher, the former superintendent, Dr. F. M. Howard, former physician in the institution; the cashier of the Meridian National Bunk, of Indianapolis, and the Treasurer of State. It then reads as follows:

We find that the full amount appropriated for the maintenance, clothing and repairs at the hospital has been reguiarlv drawn by the treasurer, Mr. Gapen. That very often and during all the months in which said Gapen was in the employment of John E. Sullivan large

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of money, from $1,000 to

$8,500 each month, would not be deposited in bank subject to payment of checks issued by said Gapen for payment of bills allowed, but was loaned to John E. Sullivan and others, from time to time, without security, and in direct violation of law, while persons holding checks were compelled to wait the payment of same for the want of funds in bank.

This system was continued by the treasurer of the board through all the period he was in the employment of said Sullivan, until finally over $3,000 of the money received by Mr. Gapen from the State Treasury was carried off by Baid John E. Sullivan, leaving Mr. Gapen in ebted [indebted] to the fund in that sum, while th [the] persons who furnished the goods and whose bills had been allowed are still holding the checks on the bank for the money, which they cannot draw because of his defalcation.

We find that on Feb. 1, 1889, there

were outstanding bills or unsettled accoun [accounts] of various persons and firms having claims against said hospital amounting in the aggregate to $17,694.98. These accounts have been running, some of them, since Nov. 1, 1888, the beginning of the present fiscal year, and a few have been carried over from the preceding year.

We have had access to no books of the institution to show the receipts from products sold or from earnings at the hospital, but from the books of the State Treasurer we find the amount paid in by the institution to be for the fiscal year of 1887, $1,084.04, and for the fiscal vear of 1888, $838.65.

We also find that in some cases where goods were sold or disposed of to persons who had contracts for furnishing supplies, that the amount so taken was charged to said persons on account and [illegible] into the State Treasury, as required by law.

A careful comparison and examination has been made of the bills oi [of] several contractors allowed by the board for supplies with their contracts, and we find that the amounts purchased were much in excess of the amounts named in the contracts. This is especially noticeable in the contracts for butter, eggs, poultry, sugar, coffee and tea. A tabular statement of such comparisons by months from March, 1887, to January, 1889, inclusive, of supplies above named will be found in the statement of the experts, the requisition books of the hospital for the several months being uniform as to the amounts needed, while the amounts purchased vary largely from month to month. Our inference is that when it was to the interest of the contractor, either on account of the reduced price of the goods purchased or the inferior quality of the goods accepted by such officers of the hospital whose duty it was to receive the same, a much larger amount would be ordered than the contract called for.

We also find that the board frequently failed to comply with the law in letting contracts for supplies, that when the bids did not suit the members of the board they refused to let the contract to any one, but authorized one of their number to make the purchases, without any restrictions as to price, quantity or quality.

The frequency with which contracts were let to John E. Sullivan and others, especially where lower bids made by competing bidders were rejected, leads us to infer that an unjust and unlawful discrimination and favoritism was indulged in by the board, which prevented competition in the sale of supplies to the hospital, and compelled the board to pay the highest price for inferior articles. The tabulated exhibits and report of the experts to this committee disclose the fact that a very few persons furnished the principal supplies for the hospital, and the evidence, we think, will show that a part of these persons, at least, were in collusion with the board to thrust inferior goods on the asylum at exorbitant prices. We think, also, that the amount of goods for which contracts were made monthly was ample to supply the institution, yet the bills show "that monthly the board paid for a much larger amount of goods than the contracts called for. The excess in the one item of tea from March to December of 1887, was two thousand two hundred pounds (2,200 lbs.), and the excess of sugar for the same time was 13,822 pounds, while the excess for coffee for the year 1888 was 14,324 pounds, and of tea for the same year, 3,047 pounds, and the excess of sugar for that year was thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-five pounds (39,825 lbs.) and many other articles in the same proportion.

We find that at the time of his appointment as trustee. P. M. Gapen gave bond in the sum of $2,000, with Samuel C. Hanna and Robert Browning, of Indianapolis, as sureties, and that said Gapen has never filed any additional bond, and that at least one of said sureties is now wholly insolvent, and that the other surety has failed financially since the execution of said bond, but said surety, Mr. Browning, testified before this committee that he was now worth $10,000 over all his indebtedness.

We find that said Gapen has unlawfully appropiated to his own use several thousand dollars of the funds belonging to the hospital, and by reason thereof he is a defaulter for over threee thousand dollars, and recommend that suit be in-

We find that Dr. Galbraith, as superintendent, under the direction tof the president of the board, Dr. Harrison, on two occasions loaned $1,000 oujt of the contingent funds in his hands belonging to the hospital, to John E. Sullivan, but that said sums were subsequently repaid to him. We also find that cm three or four occasions State Treasurer Lemeke, at the request of Mr. Gapen, loaned money to John E. Sullivaa, taking an order on Mr. Gapen as treasurer, for said amounts, and that the amounts of said loans were deducted frdm the sums subsequently drawn by Mr. Gapen as treasurer, and we condemn the practice as unlawful and recommend its discontinuance.

We find that the plan of issuing supplies at the hospital is loose and almost wholly without system. The amount distributed is not based upon any estimate of the amount needed to supply the wants of the patients, but is determined wholly by the amounts called *or from time to time by various employes of the hospital. These supplies are not issued upon any requisition of the superintendent or other superior officer, but are issued whenever called for by the cooks or other persons calling for them, the requests being sometimes in writing and sometimes verbal—no receipt being taken by the store-keeper for goods issued, and no sufficient precaution being taken to guarantee the safe delivery of the goods called for at the places in which they were claimed to be needed. The efficiency and economy of tie present method depends wholly upon the honesty of the clerks and employes. No good business man would manige his private affairs in the loose manner in which this magnificent State d^ritv is managed. Such a loose mann®pf "doing business and keeping makes it easy for collusion to t:| and for an extensive waste of si$ occur, without giving any me* ecting the same.

We find that J. H. Hall, th| steward and book-keeper, is competent, and should be iini removed, and a thorougly c: and unquestionably hemest placed in the position.

We find that the manageme financial

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the present boaro ^"fiistees very bad, and that the eviu*. a very strong suspicion that tj been corruption and dishonesl purchasing, and receiving of sBM

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tendent, Dr. Galbraith,was self the express or implied und? that he would not interfere^ board and their appointees ii chase aud receiving of suppli he would not interfere witii pomtments of said board, and| express understanding that I appoint Dr. Howard as a ph ?, the hospital, without himself |fc,ang anything of the qualifications-* gaid doctor for the position, an^aj

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sunerintendent he has failed to rcise his proper authority in correctii^nd preventing abuses at the bf ^., which, taken in connection with the fact that he has failed to adopt any proper system to regulate the amount of rations required to support the inmates of the Hospital., show him to be not qualified to discharge the duti/es of so responsible a position as superintendent of our greatest charitable institution.

We find that the evidence jdoes not support the accusations of immorality and intemperance made against Dr. Thomas, and exonerate him from said accusations.

We find that the system of keeping the accounts in the store-room at the hospital is very defective and incomnlete, and that it is impossible to ascertain from them whether the goods which are claimed to have been purchased and received were actually used at the hospital. We recommend a radical change in the whole plan of keeping said accounts.

Your committee find that in October, 1887, P. M. Gapen, treasurer of the board of trustees, entered the employment of John E. Sullivan, in the produce business,at a salary of $25 per week, and continued in said employment until said Sullivan's defalcation and flight, iiis duties in such position being merely nominal, it being the evident purpose of said Sullivan in securing his services to also seen re tbe use of the funds of the State, as well as an improper advantage in the matter of furnishing supplies to the hospital, and your coinrnr',ee believes from the evidence that both of eaid purposes were accomplished to the very great detriment of the institution, as after said employment said Sullivan almost always secured the contract for furnishing produce to the hospital, and the amounts paid him from month to month on said account continued to increase until the sums paid him monthly exceeded by over a thousand dollars the amount actually required to furnish the necessary supply of produce to the hospital, anil that the contract for the month of February, 1889, had been awarded to said Sullivan shortly before his defalcation, and would, in the opinion of your committee,have been carried out in the usual way by said P. M. Gapen, claiming to act as assignee of said Sullivan, but for the'interference of Mr. Burreli, one of the trustees, who caused said contract to be canceled.

While the evidence discloses the fact that there are debts outstanding against the hospital amounting to over seventeen thousand dollars, claimed to have been caused by an insufficiency in the appropriation, your committee believe that with an honest arid economical management of the business affairs of the hospital the amount of funds received from time to time would have been a mole to pay all proper and necessary expenses in curry on th*» Hospital.

Upon sumo matters mentioned in the evidence the committee makes no finding, for the reason that, on account of the limited time at their disposal, they were unable to complete their investigation upon eaid points, and it is powrible that a fulier invest gation might have placed said matters in a different, light.

Ali of bich is respectfully submitted. T. E. HOWARD, E. G. HENRY,

Tnos. E SHOCKNEY. WM. A. BROWN, 6. A. HAYES GEO. S. PLEASANTS, C. G. Conn, M. W. FIEIP.I. Without any disoussion, tl" House

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upon the journal, but the Senate did not concur in it so readily. Senators Morriston and Barrett opposed the printing of the evidence. Their opposition was overcome, however, and the report adopted. Five thousand copies of the evidence will be printed and sent to the members of the committee for distribution.

THE ANANIAS CLUB.

It is Entertained by Some Fairy Stories by Experts.

Indianapolis Nam. The Ananias Club had a pleasant meeting at the Police Station last night. "It was on the blood-stained field of Gettysburg," said Sergeant Wheatley, '•'that I saw a most remarkable occurrence. A member of my company had his right leg taken off by a cannon ball. He was taken back to the hospital tents. The shattered member was nicely trimmed, and as an experiment, the leg of another man was put on to that stump. Would you believe it, gentlemen, but that leg grew to the stump and that man to-day has two sound legs, save that his feet are not mates." "During the famous strike of 1876, when it was impossible to take a train out of Indianapolis without police protection, I was running an engine for the Bee Line," remarked Capt. Colbert, and had a wonderful experience on one of my trips. We were going round the

curves sixty-five miles an hour. Right he is informed of a large area of wheat ahead of us on the track was a big blue racer snake. The varmint would throw his head up every few minutes and look back at me in such a tantalising way that I got mad, and I made up my mind I would catch that snake or make him leave the track. I told the fireman to throw in the coke, and then I 'pulled her wide open.' Gee-gosh, how we did run. I could hardly keep my seat, and the telegraph poles looked like a fine tooth comb. The snake saw that I was bound to catch him, and near Fortville the snake jumped the track. He ran into a pool of water and blew into a thousand pieces. He was so hot that when he struck the water it eaused the explosion." "In the spring of 1850 I shipped as an ordinary seaman on board the New. Bedford whaler None Such for a three j'ears' cruise," remarked Sergt. Andy Sowers. "We had been out about four months, meeting with poor success, when one day a slorm came up. We had been expecting it, and consequently were prepared, but our preparations were all for naught, for it was a storm of the

kind. Billows mountain

shed upon us, and our craft was into the trough of the sea like a -•1X1

eddy. The rudder was torn

away, one of the masts fell, the water roared in torrents through the scuppers, and then all of a sudden the ship settled on her beam ends, lunched, forward and in A iiauureu iaW_ -a.l

The the club arose as one man and presented Sergt. Sowers with a wreath of sour dock.

A Paris gentleman engaged a cafe concert company to entertain his guests at a recent reception, and before the evening was over a handsome baritone of 30 won the heart of the young lady of the house, and eloped with her while the company were at dinner. She wore only a mackintosh over evening dress, and had no money, while he owes his landady two weeks' rent, and is in debt to all the neighborhood, but neither oi them has yet been heard from.

Would Work for His Mother. Chisago News. A strong young man entered the court room, leading a white-haired old woman perhaps 80 years old. Although aged and shrunken, the woman's face had a kindly expression, and she walked far more erect probably than nine-tenths of the

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opened, and she looked around the room at the jury, at the crowd of spectators, at a crazy patient being led into a side chamber,like one in a dream. "Case of wanting to get rid of the old woman," said one of the doetorsin a low tone to the reporter. "They are common cases with us."

The strong young man took the stand. "Is this a relative of yours?" asked the Court, "Yes, sir. That is my mother, Margaret Sheehey,who lives at 467 South Morgan street." "Is she insane?" "No, sir." "What is she doing here?" "Ask those who sent her. I came home last night, and the first thing I hoard was that they had taken mother to the hospital for the insane." "What do you want done with her?" "Nothing. I want to take her home with me and keep her. Some may think that she is a burden, but I shall never permit my mother to be sent to an asylum as long as I live and have hands to work for her."

The jurymen stared, the Court looked admiringly upon the youth, and the poor old mother rubbed her hands together in rapture as she heard her boy speak. "Take your mother along and God blass you," said the Court.

The young man arose and took his mother by the arm. She stood up, made an old-time courtesy to the Judge, and

spread the two went out together.

Til EDUCATED FAKMJ5R.

Edncatien as Necessary as in Any Other Yocatioa.

Prairie Farmer. The time has come when, to be snecessful in life, a person must be educated. Naiural tact is a great thing. Money is a great thing. Genius is a great thing. These are all good things and great helps to success, but far greater yet is education. As competition narrows down and the margin of action grows smaller, the better must a man be equipped for the battle of life, if he expects to be successful. This is as true of the farmer as of any one else. The time has passed for farmers to depend en muscle and hard labor alone. They must use their braint as well as thair hands. They must do more thinking and planning if they desire to receive the best results,

The farmer who reads and studies is the one who works to a purpose, while the one who does not read is the one who makes his efforts at hap-hazard. The foimer is posted on the markets, and, from long study, is able to draw conclusions and form pretty correct ideas of what it will be to his interest to raise for those markets. He discovers that the wheat market is likely to have a downward tendency, from the tact that

sown in the main wheat producing: States. Consequently, he very sensibly concludes, that for a profit he had better turn his attention to other crops. The uneducated farmer, on the other hand, knows nothing of markets, or of the outlook for crop production, and is as liable to produce a non-paying crop as any.

Then again, the educated farmer is always posted in everything pertaining to his business, and is ready to be the first to take advantage of anew and valuable discovery, and every year there are many valuable discoveries made in the agricultural world. These are cheaper and more convenient methods of per- I forming farm labor ways by which better returns are secured from the same amount of soil aud work newer and more satisfactory methods of caring for stock and of feeding and pasturing the same and many other discoveries, trifling and insignificant in themselves, but which, in the aggregate, amount to a great deal.

The uneducated farmer—the one who does not read-is the one who treats small.'matters as unworthy of any thought or attention, and who too often walks over dollars in a mad chase after phantom cold pieces. And yet, it is the small things most often that constitute profit.

The educated farmer knows how

every soul .on board going down with her." "How did you escape?" breathlessly inquired Sergt. Bruce. "Didn't escape. I was drowned with the rest of the crew," sighed Andy.

'^conorL..understands the o*—" greatest results at the least expense. He knows how to secure the greatest yield from a given amount of ground. He knows what crops to cultivate and when and where to market his products. He is posted in the new and best varieties of seeds, and also the best varieties of stock. He has the advantage of the experience of fcther men, because he reads. He does not depend altogether on his own observation and experience.

Farming is a science, and there are many new thinga to learn in it yet, and the best and cheapest way to learn those things is by study. Take agricultural papers, read in their columns the experiences and observation of others, and avail yourself of the many useful hints and suggestions, and thus keep up with the procession. "Farming is no longer profitable," some men cry, when the fact is they do not find it so for the reason that they are away behind the procession, and are attempting to run on the old plan of all muscle-work and no brain-work.

The Imitative Chinaman.

Washington special.

Senator Stewart, of Nevada, does not believe in the theory that a Chinaman can progress,although he may be Americanized in most particulars. The other day he was telling about some of his strange experiences with the sons of the Celestial empire, when he said: ''When we got our first Cninaman to cook, he didn't know a blessed thing about the kitchen, aad it became necessary for Mrs. Stewart to go down and show him how to do everything. When you demonstrate in an ocular way how things should be done John never forgets. He is very impressionable. Mrs. Stewart showed him how to make biscuits. After she rolled the dough she took a cutter and began to cut out the biscuits. When the whole roll was cut up there was a little triangular pieee left, and of this she made a half moon, as is customary. I didn't know anything about it at the time, but at the end of three or four months I diecovered that every day when our biscuits were served there was a half moon among the lot. At the end of a year 1 made inquiry about the matter of Mrs. Stewart, and she went into the kitchen and watched the Chinaman each time he cut his biscuits, and she discovered that he always made a half moon, and would spoil four or five biscuits to do

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was aa necessary as the salt or the short/ ening." It is said that the Marquis of Lome to be Governor of Cevlon at $40,000 year and board. Priucess Louise wil: go with him.

Mrs. Hanna, aged 08, the oldest res. dent in northern Indiana, is dead.

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The President sent the flowing nominations to the Senate Tuesdav:-"11 Eugene Schuyler, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of State.

Walker Blaine, of Maine, to be Examiner of Claims for the Department of State.

James S. Clarkson, of Iowa to be first Assistant Postmaster General, vice A. E. Stevenson resigned. f|

Lewis Wolflev, of Tuscon, Ari., to be Governor of Arizona. Rathbone Gardner, of Rhode Island to be United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.

Wm. L. Dunlapof Franklin, Indiana, to be United Sttes Marshal for the i^irtrict of Indiana.

William Wallace, Postmaster at In-F dianapolis. Jeremiah Sullivan, of Montana, to b^ Colletor of Customs for the District Montana and Idaho.

John A. Kasson, of Iowa W Phelps, of New Jersey, and Gee Bates, of Delaware, be Commit to represent the United States conference to be held in Berlin cc ing affairs in the Samoan Islands.

Elbert D. Weed, of Montana, United States Attorney for the Terr of Montana.

Tiix, blowing nominations were Monday: W. Budd Deacon, of New Jersey, Marshal of the United States for District of New Jersey.

John S. Burton, of "Mississippi, to Marshal of the United States for t) ISorthern District of Mississippi.

Edwin I. Kursheedt, of Louisiana be Marshal of the United States forth Eastern District of Louisiana.

Brad D. Slaughter, of Nebraska, to bet Marshal of the United States for the Digtrict of Nebraska.

Wm. H. Whiteman, of New Mexico, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme'I Court of tbe .Territory of New Mexico.

S. A. Whitfield, of Cincinnati, Second Assistant Postmaster General. Abraham D. Hazen, of Pennsylvania. Third Assistant Postmaster Gene'ral.

J. W. Mason, of West Virginia, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Wm. Thompson, of Maine, Minister to Sweden and Norway.

Samuel R. Thayer, of Minnesota, Minister to the Netherlands. C. E. Mitchell, of Connecticut, Commissioner of Patents.

N. O. Murphy, of Arizona, Secretary of Arizona. President Harrison, Tuesday, sent the following nominations to the Senate:

WhitelawReid, of New York,Minister to France. Julius Goldscl.midt, of Wisconsin. Consul General at Vienna.

Andrew C. Bradley, of the District f' Columbia, to be Associate Justice Supreme Court of the District umbia.

WASHINGTON MOTES, At noon Thursday the President formally received the members of the Diplomatic Corps. The members of the corps assembled at the Department, of State where they were presented diplomateV, who were attired resplende^ court dresses, werfev.- •. duced to the President bv the Sec: of State. All of the legation we.refe--' resented.

The cabinet, Friday, had under discussion the opening of Oklahoma or at least a portion of the territory included within its limits. The President is authort ized by the terms of the recent legislation to open to settlement about eight million acres of land, and the opinion prevails that he will shortly issue his proclamation adding that acreage to the public domain.

Postmaster General Wanamaker was asked for an expression of his views on the prohibition question. He said: "There is only one side to the prohibition question, and that is the right side—constitutional amendment. I am in favor of it first, last aud all the time."

It is said that Mr. Blaine tendered the English Mission to Whiteiaw Reid without consulting President Harrison, and that the latter was annoyed by it and said he had selected another man for the place. Forthis reason the nomination has not yet been sent in.

General Butler presented a bill of $3 to the Inaugural Committee at Washington for injuries done to the grass plot in front oi his residence there by a telegraph station being located there. The bill was paid.

Senator Chaee, of Rhode Island, has resigned, preferring private life. The Legislature is in session, and will elect his successor.

J. N. Tyner, of Indiana, ex-Postmas-ter General, has been appointed Assist-1 ant Attorney General for the Postoflice Department.

The nomination of Eugene Schuyler for Assistant. Secretary of State, has been withdrawn, he having declined the position.

It is said that Senator Chaee, of Rhode Island, will shortly resign, as he prefers private life.

Senator Quay is much sought after by o/fice seekers. His door beil was twice pulled off, last week.

It is claimed the reduction of intere«-' cn the school fund will materially P1 en the schools throughout tb^ many counties the cents

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John R. McFee, oi New Mex. Associate Justice of the Supren. of the Territory of New Mexico.

Frank R. Aikens, of Dakota, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota.

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